Master Thoughts of Thomas JeffersonNation Press, 1907 - 196 páginas |
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... fear . Things may here and there go a little wrong . It is not in their power to prevent it . But all will be right in the end , though not perhaps by the shortest means . ( Col. Duane , 1811. ) W HAT does this English faction with you ...
... fear . Things may here and there go a little wrong . It is not in their power to prevent it . But all will be right in the end , though not perhaps by the shortest means . ( Col. Duane , 1811. ) W HAT does this English faction with you ...
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... fears , they will see that concurring in sentiment as to the evil , moral and political , the duty and interest of both is to con- cur also in divining a practical process of cure . Should time not be given , and the schism be pushed to ...
... fears , they will see that concurring in sentiment as to the evil , moral and political , the duty and interest of both is to con- cur also in divining a practical process of cure . Should time not be given , and the schism be pushed to ...
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... fear , do not see the speck in our horizon which is to burst on us as a tornado sooner or later . The line of division lately marked out be- tween different portions of our confederacy is such as will never , I fear , be obliterated ...
... fear , do not see the speck in our horizon which is to burst on us as a tornado sooner or later . The line of division lately marked out be- tween different portions of our confederacy is such as will never , I fear , be obliterated ...
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... fear on that head could ever be a motive of action with me . Coming out of the Senate chamber one day , I found Gouverneur Mor- ris on the steps . He stopped me and went on to observe that the reasons why the minority of States was so ...
... fear on that head could ever be a motive of action with me . Coming out of the Senate chamber one day , I found Gouverneur Mor- ris on the steps . He stopped me and went on to observe that the reasons why the minority of States was so ...
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... fear that a republican government cannot be strong enough . But would the honest patriot , in the full tide of successful experiment , abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm , on the theoretic and visionary fear ...
... fear that a republican government cannot be strong enough . But would the honest patriot , in the full tide of successful experiment , abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm , on the theoretic and visionary fear ...
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Página 153 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns, and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies...
Página 27 - All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect and to violate would be oppression.
Página 82 - All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.
Página 3 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Página 153 - Still one thing more, fellow-citizens — a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.
Página 3 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities. The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances.
Página 186 - Yet I doubt not thro' the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widen'd with the process of the suns.
Página 117 - Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.
Página 129 - Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable"! citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country, and wedded to its liberty and interests, by the most lasting bonds.
Página 4 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country...